In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong ...

While I was walking through the old streets of Cairo on a recent visit to Egypt, the last thing I could have imagined is that I had been wanted by the Syrian regime headed by President Bashar al-Assad ...

As Syria’s new Islamist rulers reshape the way schools teach the nation’s history, students struggle to navigate the traumas ...

Svenja Schulze was in Damascus to discuss a new program that would see German doctors train Syrian colleagues. Many Syrian ...

A high-ranking member of the Islamic State militant group in Syria has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Germany, partly for alleged involvement in the genocide against the ...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk arrived in Syria's capital, Damascus, on Tuesday for the first ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s order for Israeli troops to “take over” a buffer zone with Syria upended decades of ...

Germany’s foreign minister said Sunday that sanctions against Syrian officials responsible for war crimes must remain in ...

The Syrian civil war has left massive destruction in some neighborhoods of the city of Homs, turning it into a desolate and ...

Despite assurances from the rebels-turned-leaders, members of some religious groups worry what life will be like for them in ...

More than 528,500 people were killed in the Syrian civil war, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said on Wednesday.